O’Donnell spot on in Fir Park battle

Motherwell Greenock Morton

(1-1 aet Motherwell win 5-3 on penalties)

STEPHEN O’DONNELL scored the winning penalty as Motherwell scraped past Morton in the Scottish Cup moments after the right-back appeared to have won the game in extra-time.

The right-back opened the scoring from 25 yards seven seconds from the 120-minute mark but the visitors levelled in stoppage-time when Markus Fjortoft headed home unchallenged from a corner.

Liam Kelly produced the only save of the shoot-out to deny Sean McGinty and O’Donnell kept his nerve to seal it 5-3 days after signing a new contract.

Morton, who have only recorded two win in 16 Championship games, had the best of the scarce chances in normal time before the game came to life in extra time and Motherwell booked a trip to face Stranraer or Hibernian in the quarter-finals.